synthetic_gfk: Synthetic scanner data for one consumer electronic product
In MjStansfi/GEKS_package: Calculate GEKS Indexes with Various Splice Options

GfK have made this available as a public good for the international statistical community, to aid research into new price index methods.

1	synthetic_gfk

data frame with 5509 rows and 15 variables

month_num: Month number, 0-25
char1-11: Product characteristics
prodid_num: Product identifier, created from unique characteristics
quantity: The quantity of items sold in that month as an integar
value: Sales total (NZD)

The data is based on one product category from the scanner data used in production of the New Zealand Consumers Price Index.

The synthetic data has been heavily modified to remove identification potential, while still retaining some of the characteristics of scanner data which make traditional index methods inadequate - such as high product turnover and volatile price and quantities - which motivate the multilateral index methods that are currently being researched within the international statistical community.

GfK New Zealand

MjStansfi/GEKS_package documentation built on May 12, 2021, 8:44 p.m.